Isaiah 26 : 1 (ESV)
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.
Isaiah 26 : 2 (ESV)
Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Isaiah 26 : 3 (ESV)
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26 : 4 (ESV)
Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 26 : 5 (ESV)
For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.
Isaiah 26 : 6 (ESV)
The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy."
Isaiah 26 : 7 (ESV)
The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.
Isaiah 26 : 8 (ESV)
In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
Isaiah 26 : 9 (ESV)
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26 : 10 (ESV)
If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the LORD.
Isaiah 26 : 11 (ESV)
O LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
Isaiah 26 : 12 (ESV)
O LORD, you will ordain peace for us; you have done for us all our works.
Isaiah 26 : 13 (ESV)
O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
Isaiah 26 : 14 (ESV)
They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.
Isaiah 26 : 15 (ESV)
But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isaiah 26 : 16 (ESV)
O LORD, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
Isaiah 26 : 17 (ESV)
Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O LORD;
Isaiah 26 : 18 (ESV)
we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
Isaiah 26 : 19 (ESV)
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
Isaiah 26 : 20 (ESV)
Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
Isaiah 26 : 21 (ESV)
For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
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